Optics and Exposure

Blast House

I had another adventure with friends last weekend, to probably the best site I’ve seen so far. We were there for 6 hours, I took ~400 photos and was excited to go home and sort through them for goodies. Unfortunately, I had to turn around and go out to a semi-formal party, and I wanted to bring my camera. So I dumped the photos onto my computer, and pulled the card to use again. When I went back the next day to process the photos, only 50 of the 400 were there. Son of a bitch.

I downloaded some data recovery tools, and they managed to salvage 50 more, but not any of the ones I wanted from the blast furnace, casting mill, rolling mill, or massive ladles for hauling molten steel. All the cool shots I got are gone.

This is a lesson for me. Don’t wipe the card until you’ve verified that the photos are indeed in place. No more using picasa’s built-in “delete the photos that are copied” feature. I’ll copy them. Make sure they’re all there, and then use the camera’s built-in format function to wipe the card.

Thankfully, though, I was not alone on Saturday. Below are a few shots of mine, and three that I’ve borrowed from a friend.

-aigulf

P.S. I have facebook connect running, so you can leave a comment with your fb login, if you like.  If you do so, you will be asked whether you’d like the comment also posted to your wall.  Isn’t integration fun?